VANISHED IN MONTANA: ASHLEY HEAVYRUNNER'S FAMILY DESPERATE PLEA
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ashley Loring Heavy Runner was last seen in June 2017 on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana. That night, a video taken and shared online of a party in which Ashley attended. No one heard from Ashley for days afterward. The family was at first unconcerned, but when Ashley didn't visit her father in the hospital, worry set in.
A couple of weeks later information came in that a young woman had been spotted running from a vehicle on U.S. Highway 89 on the reservation. Was it Ashley?
Family members searched the area finding a sweater and a pair of boots with red stains, thought to be Ashley's. Investigators told the family however that Ashley was adult free to come and go as she pleased. In February 2018, a nearly a year later, the FBI joined the investigation. By then, the case was cold.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Kimberly Loring Heavyrunner - sister
- Payne Lindsey - Podcast Host & Executive Producer of “Up and Vanished
- Brian Fitzgibbons - Director of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security, website: www.uspasecurity.com, Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.9 | Vanished in Montana. |
| 0:15.7 | Beautiful Ashley Loring Heavy Runner family makes a desperate plea tonight. |
| 0:21.9 | Good evening. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:23.5 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:24.8 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:33.7 | Ashley Heavy Runner is a bright, funny student preparing for a better future until one day |
| 0:39.3 | she vanishes in Browning Montana and is never heard from again. |
| 0:44.3 | I always think of Montana as this beautiful oasis really with mountains and prairies, wildlife. |
| 0:55.3 | I don't think of it as high crime. |
| 0:58.2 | I want to go to Montana. |
| 0:59.9 | I want to hike in Montana. |
| 1:01.5 | I want to breathe in the fresh air of Montana. |
| 1:04.3 | I don't want to investigate a missing person's case in Montana. |
| 1:10.8 | That's like somebody goes missing at Disneyland. |
| 1:13.6 | It just doesn't compute. |
| 1:15.6 | But yet, it happened. |
| 1:18.3 | Joining us an all-star panel, including a special guest, Kimberly Loring, heavy runner. |
| 1:25.5 | This is Ashley's sister. |
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